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Amoy is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like min or taiwanese. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Amoy in a sentence

Amoy meaning

  1. Former name of Xiamen: a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
  2. The Amoy dialect of the Hokkien language.
  3. The Hokkien language.

Synonyms of Amoy

min min dialect fukien fukkianese hokkianese taiwanese chinese

Related words

Other words often associated with Amoy or its synonyms:

formosan asiatic island asian minute sinitic

Using Amoy

  • The main meaning on this page is: Former name of Xiamen: a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China. | The Amoy dialect of the Hokkien language. | The Hokkien language.
  • Useful related words include: min, min dialect, fukien, fukkianese.

Context around Amoy

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

cavaco 1×

Often after:

xiamen 1× translation 1× brand 1×

Sentence patterns with Amoy

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

alika cavaco amoy of punahou 1× amoy had hoped 1× barclay s amoy translation opened 1× base at amoy 1× known as amoy in china 1× stronghold in amoy xiamen and 1× under the amoy brand used 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a copy of 1× amoy had hoped 1× following the manchu 1× heinz produces oriental 1× that same bank 1×

Common sentence endings:

base at amoy 1× inc tokyo japan 1× of punahou school 1× province in 1925 1× the southern city 1× to the proverbs 1×

Words around Amoy

Just before it in the word index:

amoxicillin 23 amoveo 5 amours 8 amoureux 4 amouranth 7 amoura 2

Just after it in the word index:

amp 297 ampa 3 ampadu 33 ampah 3 ampang 8 ampara 4

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaas 8 aacc 8 aacs 8 aafes 8 aankh 8 abasi 8

Corpus analysis for Amoy

  • In this selection, "amoy" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, cavaco, xiamen, translation and brand stand out and add context to how "amoy" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include alika cavaco amoy of punahou and amoy had hoped. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "amoy" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with amoy

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

A copy of Barclay’s Amoy translation, opened to the Proverbs. (11 words)

Amoy had hoped to start their married life surrounded by a like-minded community in the southern city. (18 words)

Heinz produces oriental foods sold under the Amoy brand, used under license from Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

Following the Manchu advance on Fujian, Koxinga retreated from his stronghold in Amoy ( Xiamen ) and besieged Taiwan in the hope of establishing a strategic base to marshal his troops to retake his base at Amoy. (35 words)

He is the third prospect to commit from this weekend’s UH-hosted trip, following edge defender Noah Wily of Saint Louis School and linebacker Alika Cavaco-Amoy of Punahou School. (31 words)

That same bank, Chinese Commercial Bank, opened a bank branch in Xiamen—then known as Amoy—in China’s Fujian province in 1925. (23 words)

Example sentences (6)

Following the Manchu advance on Fujian, Koxinga retreated from his stronghold in Amoy ( Xiamen ) and besieged Taiwan in the hope of establishing a strategic base to marshal his troops to retake his base at Amoy.

He is the third prospect to commit from this weekend’s UH-hosted trip, following edge defender Noah Wily of Saint Louis School and linebacker Alika Cavaco-Amoy of Punahou School.

That same bank, Chinese Commercial Bank, opened a bank branch in Xiamen—then known as Amoy—in China’s Fujian province in 1925.

Amoy had hoped to start their married life surrounded by a like-minded community in the southern city.

A copy of Barclay’s Amoy translation, opened to the Proverbs.

Heinz produces oriental foods sold under the Amoy brand, used under license from Ajinomoto Co. Inc., Tokyo, Japan.

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "amoy" in a sentence?
An example: "Following the Manchu advance on Fujian, Koxinga retreated from his stronghold in Amoy ( Xiamen ) and besieged Taiwan in the hope of establishing a strategic base to marshal his troops to retake his base at Amoy." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "amoy" from authentic English texts.
What does "amoy" mean?
Amoy means: Former name of Xiamen: a prefecture-level city and subprovincial city of Fujian, in southeastern China.
What are synonyms of "amoy"?
Common synonyms of "amoy" include: min, min dialect, fukien, fukkianese, hokkianese, taiwanese, chinese.
How many example sentences with "amoy" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "amoy", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.